While yet within the heart, inwardly,
The soul of the Jew yearns,
And towards the vistas of the East, eastward,
An eye looks toward Zion,

Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope born of two thousand years,
To be a free people in our land,
In the land of Zion and Jerusalem,
To be a free people in our land,
In the land of Zion and Jerusalem.

Ha-Tiqvah, the national anthem of Israel was adopted in 1948.
The words were written by Naftali Herz Imber (1856-1909), a poet
born in Galicia, who moved to Palestine in 1882, then moved in
1888 to India, where, some say, he converted to Christianity.
The music was reportedly by either a Nissan Belzer or a Samuel
Cohen. The authorship is uncertain. The tune was taken from
a musical theme in Smetana's "Moldau", which was itself
an arrangement of an Eastern European folk song.
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